Just a knife...knifin' around...cut cut cut

It seems to me that more than a few of those Americans who are pushing for war with Iran place Israel’s national defense priorities above own own – not just neoconservatives, but evangelical Rapturians and politicians like Newt Gingrich (funded by Sheldon Adelson – a classic Israel Firster…), and Rick Santorum, who has actually said that he wants to bomb Iran. They’re dangerously wrong; they have an inalienable right to be foolish; they even have the right to place Israel’s national security concerns first. But such people go disgracefully overboard when they designate those of us who disagree with them as “anti-Semites.”

Which brings me to my second point: I remember when the Anti-Defamation League had better things to do – during the civil rights movement; and during the period when Jews were discriminated against in college admissions, housing and a whole host of other areas. The ADL was an iconic institution back then; I considered Abe Foxman a hero. He is not anymore. He wantonly accuses people like David Petraeus, and me – and institutions like the Center for American Program and Media Matters–of anti-Semitism. He has debased a very important currency…

And I must say that being called an anti-semite by these people is surreal.